Critical Thinking: Skills and Tools for Problem-Solving and Decision-Making

By: Lucy Jenkins

Narrated by: Clare Radix

Length: 1 hr and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Learn how to think smarter and use critical thinking to your advantage. Intelligence is not just something you have or don't have. It can be practiced. You can become more intelligent if you want to. People who think more logically, don't follow the masses or the trends, but they think for themselves, comparing all kinds of criteria and connotations to each other, while assessing the validity and conclusions of those data. Being able to make up your own mind, not just based on emotions, but rather on clear connections and consequences, is a highly valuable skill in this society.

Learn more about:

• What critical thinking is, how it is defined, and how it applies today.
• How all of this applies to science and history.
• Where philosophy and logical thinking skills came from.
• Why being skeptical can actually help you.
• How to choose for good things in life by assessing their value.
• Reasons why you need to overcome egocentrism, emotional submission, and other tendencies we have as humans.
• How to question things without being a smarty pants about it.

This book is great anyone who wishes to learn when to apply skepticism, emotions, and intelligent logic.

©2019 Lucy Jenkins (P)2019 Lucy Jenkins

Loved it

There were so many points in this publication that I did not understand before. I am glad I found it. It was actually worth my time, especially because I listened to it while I was driving a car to my job.

Yeah, I was thinking this too

Critical thinking. Why don't so many people get it? There are so many people who draw conclusions based on nothing or jump to conclusions too fast.

I like books like this because they teach you to think things through. Skepticism isn't always wrong. And even that, I'm skeptical about. Ha! Nice job, Lucy and Clare.

Critical

I was critical of this book to begin with, but after listening to it for a few minutes, I really began enjoying it. Great content, great narrative.

Not bad

I actually liked it for being a little over an hour. I can't say too much about it, and I don't think writing an entire paragraph of a book that's probably only about 10,000 or 15,000 words long would be the right thing to do. However, if you're looking for something to trigger some deeper thoughts, this is it. Good job.

Awesome

I love books like this. they make you think about life and about various decisions you need to make. Lucy did a good job outlining all the criteria of critical thinking (get it? Ah, never mind.).

Interesting thoughts

It kept me thinking. I like these kinds of books. Lucy Jenkins did an excellent job explaining what critical thinking consists of, as did the narrator. Thanks.

not very helpful

the book just told stories about other people and their accomplishments. it does not provide any tools and hardly any advise for critical thinking or problem solving. I am kinda disappointed as it turned out to not be very helpful at all.

Meh. Same book, different author...

There are at least three books on this subject that are almost carbon copies of the other, and all supposedly penned by different witers! Christian Velt, George Feller, and Lucy Jenkins, all have the same book. The only difference is the reader, and a slight tweaking of a few passages. aside from that, I guess it's good to have the repetition, but on the other hand, originality and differing examples might have also been a good idea. Three authors at least have claimed this book, all using the same analogies, examples and in many areas, the exact same wording and phrasing. The humor in it, is the condemnation of a popular online retailer, encouraging certain types of reviews... It's funny because it's a plagiarized statement trying to convince us of a morals/ethical decision for reviews... Overall it's not a terrible book, the problem is I've heard the same one twice before!